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Setting aside professional writing, and looking at it in general terms, just how engrained is your personal urge to write? What if someone told you tomorrow, "You can no longer create stories (or articles, or blog entries, or whatever else you might do)." Could you comply with that, or would you still have to find ways to let your Muse run free?
Personally, writing isn't that much farther below breathing for me. As a kid, I created stories even before I could do it physically. I wrote for fun till I was old enough to set my sites on doing it professionally. Even when I put my freelancing career on hold, I had my corporate work as an outlet. When that ended, I started blogging as a pre-cursor to returning to freelancing. Even if I knew I would never sell another article again, I'd still be pounding my keyboard regularly.
It reminds me of a science fiction story I read once. The protagonist is a writer who has been jailed as a political prisoner, and he is denied any writing materials. He lies in bed in his cell and imagines writing words on the ceiling. If I were denied paper and pen (or laptop or whatever), that would probably be me too. How about you?
Personally, writing isn't that much farther below breathing for me. As a kid, I created stories even before I could do it physically. I wrote for fun till I was old enough to set my sites on doing it professionally. Even when I put my freelancing career on hold, I had my corporate work as an outlet. When that ended, I started blogging as a pre-cursor to returning to freelancing. Even if I knew I would never sell another article again, I'd still be pounding my keyboard regularly.
It reminds me of a science fiction story I read once. The protagonist is a writer who has been jailed as a political prisoner, and he is denied any writing materials. He lies in bed in his cell and imagines writing words on the ceiling. If I were denied paper and pen (or laptop or whatever), that would probably be me too. How about you?